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Topic: [Waterscape Records] A new Home for Experimental Guitar Music (Read 49619 times)

The old thread was deleted because of the new Forum, so i decided to give itanother try.

The first 2 Waterscapes are now sold out. Mike does have a few Copies left i think.

So what do we face in 2008?

[ws03] Light of Shipwreck - Through the Bilge Lies A Calm And Bloodless Sea

[ws04] True Colour of Blood - The Cave of Knowledge

[ws05] Taiga Remains - Descend from Ivory Cliffs

and also upcoming releases by Peter Wright, Jason Sloan and Matt Borghi.

There are Excerpts and the whole Artwork for all the Releases now online, because i finally foundsome time to completely update the site.

One Note: As you might read, i'm totally in love with the Taiga RemainsRelease. I guess i should love all my sheep's the same way, but i canthelp myself. Descend from Ivory Cliffs is such a breathtaking record.Thats also the reason for me to release it in a run of 100 Copies.

So for more Infos go to www.waterscape.de or ask questions in thisthread if you want to.

Well, to be honest. A few days ago i talked to Dan from Apalusa.And we spoke about a future release. Guess things will go itsway and we can expect a release on Waterscape in the mid of theyear. Depending on when i get the master.

Apalusa is a great artist, your right.I have also talked to Gareth Hardwick.And it seems that he is also into releasingsomething in the next year. So great releases are coming up.And i didnt even talked about the Colab between Aidan bakerand myself.

Refreshingly discreet of you to ignore your own collab, Martin Gareth Hardwick was another kindred spirit in guitar drone that I had in mind. Have you got a hotline to my head?

No hotline to your head alan, but perhaps the same musical taste. Guess this could fit.Is Thisquietarmy a new name for you?So i'm always open to other suggestions, even toughi have enough releases for the next half year.

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It seems there's a healthy overlap taste-wise, yes I haven’t heard of Thisquietarmy, Martin, but two other candidates I would just mention whose stuff is still low profile in terms of conventional releases and deserves wider exposure are Pausal (UK) and Lähtö (U.S.):

More grandiose and in a sort of Big Drone Sweep style a bit like Hammock or Sigur Ros with band and singer(s) taken out with the remainder hitched to a dronier Eluvium or even Exuviae (remember him?): http://www.myspace.com/lahto

It seems there's a healthy overlap taste-wise, yes I haven’t heard of Thisquietarmy, Martin, but two other candidates I would just mention whose stuff is still low profile in terms of conventional releases and deserves wider exposure are Pausal (UK) and Lähtö (U.S.):

More grandiose and in a sort of Big Drone Sweep style a bit like Hammock or Sigur Ros with band and singer(s) taken out with the remainder hitched to a dronier Eluvium or even Exuviae (remember him?): http://www.myspace.com/lahto

Thanks for those two. The songs on Pausals myspace are really what i was lookingfor. Lähtö is also very nice. I will send them a message for sure.

Thanks Alan.

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You're welcome, Martin. Pausal were involved in organising the recent SotL gigs in the UK, in which context I exchanged a few emails with them. Very nice blokes, and those myspace player tracks are quite lovely, aren't they Lähtö - a guy called Tyke Chandler - actually used to be on the old Hypnos forum, but I haven't seen him around for a while. For some reason all his releases have been free downloads. His music seems good enough to me for him to charge someone some money somewhere along the line sometime soon I trust you'll give us an update in a few days on how things go communications-wise with all these experimental guitar drone types.

Hi guys. Eavesdropping on your conversation... just checked out Lahto and I'm downloading his music now after previewing his MySpace tracks. Thanks for the recommendation - this is good stuff. I'm happy that he's giving it away, but he could definitely sell it!

I have talked to Tyke, and he was really enthusiasticabout the whole idea. and he is so incredibly talented.So i can now announce that Lähtö is officially on theWaterscape Roster. There is no deadline for him, butwhen he finished the recordings i will receive the masterand then things will go its way.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that i also talked withyui onodera and he will record something for Waterscapemainly with guitar only. Could take a while because heis busy, but we can expect a release.

Now i just need a "yes" from Pausal and i could lean backfor a while.

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That’s great, Martin. Good going. And, what's more, it's a testament to the synergistic heft (vidnaObmana title candidate there? ) of this kind of forum that we spontaneously collaboratively generated half of a label roster. We rock. Or rather, We Drone!!

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Some of us just have a special gift, Joe I think you might like some of the stuff by Apalusa (discussed in this thread earlier) - a bit darker and less dreamy - more eerie (one your faves) in fact than the guy with the dots on his as and os. I'll see if we can arrange for a lorry back-fall-off incident

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Lemme know what you thought of "Small Environs", Joe-ski. I have another, "Wires and Knives", if Apalusa's brand of eerieness is of the Joe-boat-floating kind - could arrange for a New Year delivery As for the Secret of the Dots, I'm quite willing to confess there's no mystique or technique; it's as simple as having a Word document open and selecting those funny characters from 'symbol' on the 'Insert' menu, then copying and pasting 'em into your Forum post as you write it.

Yeah, i couldn't be happier about my current Roster of Artists. And it also seams that Mirko Uhlig is also interested. I haveto say that Uhlig definitely is one of the finest german droneartists around today.

But did you Guys already checked out the Taiga Remains Sampleon my Site? Breathtaking in every single sense.